New Poll Pinpoints Exact Age You Become Your Parents

Oh, great.

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You know that horrible feeling you get when you start reacting to something exactly the way your mother does, or dropping some outmoded slang that your dad used to use without even realizing it? Yeah, it's officially inevitable: A British poll sampling nearly 1100 adults found that, of course, we all turn into our parents to some extent. The surprising thing is that it happens well before middle age — according to this new data, that transformation really kicks in around age 32.

The Daily Mail cites a survey by Netmums including 50 "giveaway behaviors" — pretty obvious stuff, like not knowing songs on the radio and coming home early — but the good news is that most of those kick in only once adults become parents, so childless adults may be buying themselves a little more time.

And while adults reported that in parenthood, they suffered from a lack of sleep and free time, there was an upshot, too: One-third of participants described themselves as "more tolerant" and more engaged with their community.

Given that Kim Kardashian is 31, that means she has just a few short months before she, too, starts crashing North West's photo ops and cajoling her daughter's rapper boyfriend into coming on her low-rated daytime talk show.